This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy was my first dog and he thought the garden was his, even though I did all the work. Now Suzie and Charley follow in his footsteps. We're located near Boston (USDA zone 6A). I have a community plot, a backyard vegetable garden, fruit trees, berry bushes, chickens, and bees. I use sustainable organic methods and do my best to grow all of my family's vegetables myself.

Monday, January 21, 2008

garden tee

Not much to do in the garden now, so I have a new garden-related project. I'm working on designing a gardening tee-shirt with my photos. I would like a design that is black and white on a colored shirt. Ideally pictures that look like ink drawings. And words that relate to growing vegetables. I have some nice software to work with the photos. This design is a start, but pretty far from what I'd like. I'll continue to work on it.

Are you thinking of something just for yourself - or something we could have also? I have a gardening outfit you know - T shirt (either old black T shirt with Peace and Love sign from our school fundraiser where we went dressed up as hippies from the 70s, or old white T shirt of my husband's), plus Sloggers gardening vest, blue or green tradesman's pants, french gardening clogs and hat. I wear this outfit to my community garden plot every morning. It's hard wearing, nothing special and saves my ordinary clothes from being destroyed. I could have a gardening T shirt added to the predictable gardening outfit.